QianlongEach of rectangular form, the covers with gilt-wire mesh quatrelobed windows on each side, colourfully decorated in polychrome and gilt with a ferocious front-facing five-clawed dragon holding the flaming pearl enclosing the character sheng, surrounded by further eighteen sinuous three-clawed dragons in flight amidst lingzhi-shaped vaporous clouds and emerging from crashing waves and rockwork at the sides, the interior with gilt-lacquered trays set with ten circular divots, all carefully incised and painted in gilt, red and green colours above a black lacquer ground, fitted boxes. Each 53.5cm (21in) long x 23.5cm (9 1/4in) deep x 24.8cm (9 3/4in) high (6).